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Did you accidentally post this to the new twitter thread[1] first? [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20466641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2046

• fortran77 7y ago
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  • infuriating 7y ago
    Man, what is that guy even on about... Anyway, yeah. It's thoroughly enraging when you ask for help, and you're quickly told that your needs themselves are simply in the wrong. It's even worse than seeing thousands of similar questions met by crickets and tumbleweeds, which is the original symptom stack overflow set out to cure. Q. Hello, I wanted to open up a DLL file in a HEX editor and directly edit some of the bytes of the file, just to see what happens. Which HEX editor is the best one for diffing and translating some of the string literals embedded in a binary? A. Why would you ever do that? A. You should never do that. A. Do not edit binary files. A. Why don't you have the source? Can't you recompile? A. That's really dangerous. You could go to jail for that. A. ARE YOU TRYING TO BRICK YOUR SYSTEM????????????????????? A. You should not try to reverse engineer your software. Check the EULA that shipped boxed with your set of compact discs. It's usually forbidden and will void the warranty on your installed partition. Riiiiigggghhht.